News from 2008

These articles from 2008 have been archived from our front page:
2008 Newsletter · Photos from Glengarry Highland Games · Vancouver Burns Supper · Glengarry Highland Games· 2008 Gathering Report

2008 Newsletter Now Available!

The 2008 newsletter will be arriving in your mailbox if it hasn't already arrived.  You can also view it online (member login required).

Photos from the Chief's Visit
to the Glengarry Highland Games

Sep. 10, 2008: Please visit our MSN Group to see photos of the Glengarry Highland Games in Maxville, Ontario, Canada.  As the official representative of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, Chief David Hannay was given the honour of leading the Parade of Clans in front of a crowd of several thousand spectators.

Chief to Attend
Glengarry Highland Games
August 1-2, 2008
Maxville, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Hannay will also visit
Montreal Scottish Festival

Dr. David R. Hannay will be attending the Glengarry Highland Games as part of his North American visit this summer.  See article, top left, for more details on the event. The following day, August 3rd, Chief David will be at the Montreal Scottish Festival.

Come on out and meet the chief!

Vancouver
Burns Supper
 January 27

We received the following email message from the Fort Vancouver Pipe Band in Vancouver, BC, Canada:

We would like to share with your and your clan and organization members information about the Burns Supper on January 27 starting at 3 p.m. at the Vesta Restaurant in Vancouver, Washington.  While we know you may not be close enough to attend, we hope you can spread the word to those you think might have an interest and are in the Vancouver, Portland, Kelso, Longview areas.  We'd love to see you or them on Sunday.  Reservations are needed. 

A flyer is attached but please call 360-546-2271 if you need any more information

Penny McLaren, Fort Vancouver Pipe Band

2008 Clan Hannay Gathering
and Annual General Meeting Report

A successful clan gathering was held on Saturday afternoon May 31^st, when about 50 people were piped to Sorbie Tower by the new clan piper, David Hanna from Northern Ireland. In the morning there was an AGM and lunch at Garlieston Village Hall and in the evening a dinner with ceilidh/dance in Newton Stewart. At the AGM, amongst other matters, the following two items were agreed:

 1) After consideration by the clan council, it was decided that the arrangements agreed in 2002 whereby overseas branch members paid one third of annual fees to the main society (and so became full members of the main society) would cease. This was because, with some exceptions, this had not happened.

 Instead, it was agreed to offer life membership to all annual members, allowing for fees already paid (whether to a branch or main society ) on a pro-rata basis. Annual membership would still be available, but only by direct debit. The newsletter is currently sent to 527 members of whom 92 are annual members. Of these, less than half have kept their subscriptions up to date, but still receive the newsletter. Annual members will be written to during the next few weeks about this.

2) Next year there is an international clan gathering in Edinburgh on July25th & 26^th,  with a highland games in Holyrood Park, and on Saturday a parade up the Royal Mile to a pageant at the Castle. It was therefore decided to have the clan AGM and dinner in Edinburgh on Friday evening July 24^th, before the international gathering , rather than have a gathering at Sorbie at the end of May.

Clan Hannay society have already booked a tent for the highland games and some passports for the parade and pageant. Passport tickets have recently gone on sale and may  be sold out soon. Details can be found at http://www.homecomingscotland.com